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YOGASATTVA MARCH 2019 ISSUE MONTHLY NEWSLETTER OF THE YOGA INSTITUTE, INDIA OLDEST ORGANISED YOGA CENTRE IN THE WORLD HOW WOMEN CAN BALANCE THEIR LIVES EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW WITH MAA HANSAJI BY SMT. SASHI SARDA SKIN CARE & YOGA YOGA MD SELF-HEALING THROUGH YOGA A CASE STUDY TRANSFORMATION THROUGH YOGA TRADITIONAL FOOD VS TRENDING FOOD RUJUTA DIWEKAR Friday, 8 March International Women's Day 2019 C ONTENTS HOW WOMEN HOW YOGA CAN BALANCE HELPS IN THEIR LIVES - OVERCOMING Q&A WITH EXAMINATION MAA HANSAJI STRESS EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW BY SMT. SASHI SARDA FROM THE TEACHER’S DIARY 6 4-5 SKIN CARE FACING SMALLER & YOGA STRESSES IN EVERYDAY LIFE DR. JAYADEVA YOGA MD 7 YOGENDRA 22-23 REFLECTION TRADITIONAL FOOD VS TRENDING FOOD YOGA TECHNIQUE OF THE MONTH 8 RUJUTA DIWEKAR 24 PREGNANCY BAKED VEGGIE CAMP FOR ANTE ROLLS AND POST NATAL RECIPE OF THE MONTH 25 PATANJALI TESTIMONIALS YOGA SUTRA FEATURED ACTIVITY 9 26-27 SELF-HEALING UPCOMING THROUGH YOGA ACTIVITIES A CASE STUDY TRANSFORMATION THROUGH YOGA 10 28-30 The Yoga Institute Shri Yogendra Marg, Prabhat Colony, Santacruz East, Mumbai - 400055, India. TYI HEADLINES PUBLICATIONS & Email: [email protected] Tel: +91-22-26122185/+91-22-26110506 CENTRES www.theyogainstitute.org Follow us on 11-21 31 EDITOR’S NOTE Namaste, woman holds the power to create, nurture and transform with selfless love, care and affection. She deserves to be celebrated every single day but more so on a day specially dedicated to express love and gratitude towards women’s’ contribution to our Alives and society. While International Women’s Day commemorates the inspiring role of women around the world, at The Yoga Institute, we take the opportunity to honour women who are at the forefront of yogic society and our Institute - Smt. Sitadevi Yogendra, fondly known as Mother, and Pujya Maa, Smt. Hansaji Jayadeva Yogendra. Mother married Shri Yogendraji, Founder of The Yoga Institute, in 1927 and joined him in his mission of spreading the knowledge of Yoga worldwide, especially to women. Authored by Mother, 'Yoga Physical Education for Women' has been hailed the world over as the first authoritative book on Yoga for women written by a woman. She was instrumental in opening up the world of Yoga to women. Smt. Hansaji’s life is an epitome of Yoga. She has brought about key revolutionary changes in the field of Yoga by spreading Yoga education especially for women. This led to special classes for women, Pregnancy, Menopause, Antenatal and Postnatal camps to name a few. She learnt and taught Yoga at the time when women were not considered a part of the Yoga fraternity. Renowned as the First Lady of Yoga, she is well-known for her oratory skills and popular amongst the national and international Yoga fraternity. The Yoga Institute celebrates the great success of every woman around the world, across all spheres of life. With the exam season around, students are crumbling under pressure for not being able to remember, loss of sleep and energy, lack of concentration and nightmares related to the exams. To reduce their burden, let us encourage children to be more energetic through proper food, physical exercise. With practice of yoga and meditation, along with creative activities, children are able cope with exam stress and perform better. More conscious power to women and good luck to all the students! PEARLS OF WISDOM How Women Can Balance Their Lives - Q&A with Maa Hansaji Q: Hansaji, I would like to ask you that everywhere we are hearing A: We have to understand that the space that we are using in this world about women’s empowerment, what are your thoughts on the should be less because there are too many people. If you have more than same? what is required, then you are creating less balance in your life. Example- A: Awareness is the key. Women are strong and revered as "SHAKTI", Women have the habit to continuously hoard thing in cupboards, this which means empowerment, positivity, progress, activity, enthusiasm brings nothing but imbalance, tension, sickness and disease. The less you and moving ahead. Sometimes women get terrified, overburdened and do of ‘me and mine’, the better you are. Women should do one thing overpowered by negativity; then they forget how to handle a situation. when they bring something; they should give away something. Try and Women are strong but don’t act that way, so this idea of women’s learn to share, try and help others. empowerment is good to remind them of their true nature. Letting go or "Vairagya" comes by doing your duties in life. Women should be objective while doing their duties in life. No expectations and Q: In Ashtanga Yoga, one of the Yamas is APARIGRAHA which no comparisons is the key to happiness. Develop Bhavas of Maitri, means non-cluttering or non- possessiveness. Women mostly Mudita, Karuna, Upeksha for better relations. suffer as they do not practice APARIGRAHA. What tips would you give them to practice APARIGRAHA and letting go? YOGASATTVA 04 PEARLS OF WISDOM Q: Women are generally fearful and anxious. What is your answer situations that means you are turning your mind to the negative side. If to all their anxiety? In very simple words, how can they get rid of it? you can immediately find good in people and situations, the situation is A: Women should develop more understanding and have a healthy good. So when the mood goes into a negative direction, you should stop philosophy about life. Universe is big and working with its own laws. Life thinking, do more meditation, relaxation, recreation and try to be close is full of varieties of people and life goes on; you may be there, or you to nature. When the mind is negative - you should not speak and not do may not be there. Keep busy with work and living in the present. Anxiety, any action; you should either read or write at that time. tension or fear means you are living in past or future. Both are not in our control. Q: Rapid fire answers:- Q: How should the lady of the house take care of her home and her family members without neglecting her own self ? Tips for working 1. Why should I practice Yoga? women - For happiness A: Usually the awareness that ‘I should take care of myself and maintain my balance’, ‘I should remain healthy’ is missing in women because they want to take care of everybody. Taking care is not such a big thing, but 2. If I am angry, what should I do at that time to calm myself ? they want to make everybody happy around them, and that is not possible - Mauna as people become happy or not happy according to their nature. So women tend to overdo things. 3. How should I be less fearful? Women are working. Even in the house or if they go out, they are - Increase faith working 24 hours. The point is that when you go out to work, so much of house work is going to be neglected; you can't be at two places at the same 4. What is the one thing I should practice daily? time. So a woman should know how to distribute the responsibilities in - Patience the house, not just doing everything by herself. She should become a good executive in life and delegate work both in the house and outside. If 5. One pranayama that you recommend for women? she is earning, she has to learn to spend to get the required house help for - Pranayama No. 4, abdominal breathing the housework. Feeling guilty makes no sense; instead, do some action. Organising your life would be better. 6. Love is... Q: What should be the thought process of a women who is - Life expecting too much of herself ? How can she come into balance? A: Well, it is very strongly mentioned that when you do your work, you are 7. What is family? supposed to do it very sincerely. Accepting whatever the result is has to - Growth, staying together become a philosophy of life. Do your job to the best of your capacity; you have right over your work but no right over the result. 8. What is religion? She has to become more philosophical, more accepting of herself. We all - Helping humanity make mistakes; learn from your mistakes and organise yourself so that the same mistakes don't occur again. Feeling guilty and bad should not be 9. Life is... done; uplifting yourself and respecting yourself should be the approach. - Beautiful Q: We see many women who are very compassionate, and this 10.One piece of advice to all women? compassion becomes a cause of their pain. What is your advice to - Remember your own strength, remember that you have all the such women? capacity and you can do it. A: We are supposed to do our duty - "dharma" - in life, and we have to do so many duties. The hierarchy of duties is very clear; taking out time for yourself is your first duty. Maintaining your own balance and your health is your first duty. Duty towards near and dear ones, work, society, nation, humanity - all these are the duties. Now when you get carried away emotionally, you want to help others or indulge in certain areas where some mistake is happening. We should know that we are not Gods to make other people happy or to run the world with our own emotion. We can only do our bit, and if we overdo any area, other areas would suffer. Use your intelligence, your “Buddhi " so that you organise and get things done.